A federal court ruled Friday that Alabama’s current state Senate district map violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, banning voting laws that discriminate based on race. In a 261-page ...

Under orders from the Supreme Court to produce a voting map that no longer illegally dilutes the power of Black voters in Alabama, the state’s lawmakers are now facing a high-stakes scramble to ...

A federal judge on Friday ordered Alabama lawmakers to draw a new legislative map that includes a new majority-Black Senate district near Montgomery or something close to it.

The state is expected to appeal the decision, which comes as both parties move to draw new districts for partisan advantage.

Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen told a federal judge Thursday he still does not know if the governor will call a special session to redraw state Senate districts in Montgomery after a ruling that ...

A panel of federal judges will soon decide whether Alabama Republicans complied with a court mandate to create a map that gives Black voters more power.

Alabama plans to appeal a federal judge’s order to swiftly draw new state Senate districts for use in next year’s legislative elections.

A federal court blocked a newly drawn Alabama congressional map on Tuesday because it didn’t create a second majority-Black district as the Supreme Court had ordered earlier this year.

A slate of federal judges just forbade Alabama from using its current congressional map in 2024. They ruled that state legislators defied a district court and the Supreme Court's previous orders ...

After the high court invalidated Alabama’s congressional map, lawmakers responded by drawing a new one that doesn’t include two majority-black districts, but instead reduces the black majority ...